Fifteen years ago Philadelphia was yet another Rust Belt city wrestling with decline. Today, as the Pew Charitable Trust’s latest State of the City report has shown, the city is on an upward trajectory, adding population in recent years for the first time since 1950, and adding jobs, too. Philadelphia is starting to look like a city following ...

It's up to local governments to do what Washington can't – fix our ailing infrastructure. America's eyes are turning back to Washington as the latest in a long series of short-term federal transportation funding extensions is about to expire. Many hope increases in federal spending and the gas tax will be the answer for ailing ...